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Leading The Product 2017Speaker Slides
Melbourne and Sydney, Australia
Syed AhmedBupa, Australia and NZ
For more information go towww.leadingtheproduct.com
Working with HALProduct Management in the age of
Artificial Intelligence
Syed Ahmed@sokahmed
AI will have a profound impact on your personal and
professional life
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• Gates• Pichai• Zuckerberg
• Musk• Bezos
What exactly is AI?
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from magic.”Arthur C. Clarke
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A sufficiently useful definition
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Autonomous decision-making
Independent learning
Large volumes of unstructured data
Complex ambiguity
The overly simplified AI cake
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Interactive
Systemic
Academic
Disruption
(Yet another) technology adoption curve
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adoption
novelty capability
Utility
Obscurity
time
Industries are already affected
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Transport (freight)
Legal (discovery)
Finance (trading)
But what about creativity?Original
Emotion-inducingArtisitc
C R E A T I O N8
AI can make great music
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http://www.aiva.ai/
AI can make great art
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https://www.nextrembrandt.com/
AI can make great stories
“Konpyuta ga shosetsu wo kaku hi”
(The Day a Computer Writes a Novel)
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Still think AI can’t do Product Management?
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• Backlog refinement and prioritisation• User research• Multi-variate testing• Feature / usage analysis
But it’s not all bad news
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The tech has a way to go
software
hardware
network
data
Accelerated augmentation
PM is not low hanging fruit
Product Management
In the meantime …
… what can I do to get started?
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Start using and advocating for a consistent, directionally correct definition
For us, AI means …
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Ask why you might want to use AI techniques in your product
Why do we want to do this
again …?
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Would you ask someone else to do a “thing” for you?
Could you please …
Interactive
Systemic
Academic
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How would you feel if someone already did that thing?
Wait … what?
Interactive
Systemic
Academic
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It’s not just for the devs …START TINKERING!
Now, repeat after me …
https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com
Key takeaways
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• AI is not a fad – and it will affect you• It’s progressing rapidly – but still some
way to go• Get started, and get ahead of the
coming changes
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Questions?
Email: [email protected] Twitter: @sokahmedWeb: www.syedahmed.netLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/syedahmed
